abaca

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Nigeria-born Jones accesses untouched territory with help from helicopters and a new mobile camp, Abaca.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2015

Abaca, ab′a-ka, n. the native name of the so-called Manilla hemp of commerce—really a plantain, much grown in the Philippine Islands.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Abaca is much stronger than hemp and is used white and unpitched.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

Abaca and palay are raised, and in the gold washings considerable gold of good quality is found.

From The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient by Halstead, Murat

Abaca, Manila hemp, or the plant, native to the Philippines, which yield it in quantities.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin